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3m Innovation Properties Company

David T Yust

Gilles J Benoit

William Ward Merrill

Neeraj Sharma

Stephen A Johnson

Yufeng Liu

John Allen Wheatley

Douglas Scott Dunn

Guanglei Du

Anthony M Renstrom

Timothy J Nevitt

William Blake Kolb

Carl A Stover

Rolf W Biernath

Matthew S Stay

Michael A Johnson

Tri Dinh Pham

Bharat R Acharya

Robert D Taylor

Gary E Gaides

Matthew S Cole

Owen M Anderson

Quinn D Sanford

Jason S Petaja

Brian W Lueck

Jeremy O Swanson

Matthew E Sousa

Lin Zhao

David A Rosen

Benjamin J Forsythe

Joseph P Attard

Steven R Anderson

Lisa A DeNicola

Qunyi Chen

Zhisheng Yun

Caroline M Ylitalo

Adam D Haag

James M Jonza

Kristopher J Derks

Philip G Martin

John D Le

Jung-Sheng Wu

Gina M Buccellato

Michelle Lund Toy

Matthew R D Smith

Brianna N Wheeler

Onur Sinan Yordem

Ellison G Kawakami

Patrick M Crain

Michael F Weber

Martin B Wolk

George W Griesgraber

Lei Wang

Timothy L Wong

Michael Benton Free

Encai Hao

David S Hays

Gregg A Ambur

Yu Yang

Lan Hong Liu

Charles David Hoyle

Robert M Jennings

David J W Aastuen

Arthur L Kotz

William F Edmonds

Susan L Kent

Nathaniel K Naismith

John F Van Derlofske, Iii

Kayla A McGrath

Willem V Bastiaens

Jun Xiao

Frederick J Gustafson

Matthew Rd Smith

Alex P Pongratz

Albert T Schmitz

Douglas S Dunn

An optical film and a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) including the optical film is described. The optical film includes a first optical stack disposed on, and spaced apart by one or more spacer layers from, a second optical stack. When the optical film is disposed between, and adhered to, hypotenuses of first and second prisms to form a PBS and a cone of light is incident on the PBS making an incident angle of about 40 to 50 degrees with the optical film, the PBS has: an average optical reflectance Rs greater than about 95% for a first polarization state; an average optical transmittance Ts less than about 0.012% for the first polarization state; an average optical transmittance Tp less than about 98.5% for a second polarization state; and an average optical reflectance Rp less than about 0.25% for the second polarization state.

Optical film and polarizing beam splitter

Film stacks comprise a quarter-wave retarder and a transparent aliphatic cross-linked polyurethane layer disposed on a major surface of the quarter-wave retarder. The transparent aliphatic cross-linked polyurethane layer has a glass transition temperature in a range from 11 to 27° C. and a Tan Delta peak value in a range from 0.5 to 2.5.

Film stacks for thin circular polarizers

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm≤L2−L1≤50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

Display system with finger sensing

A film stack includes co-stretched first and second layers. The first layer is stained with iodine and has a glass transition temperature of at least 5° C. greater than a glass transition temperature of the second layer. The second layer has in-plane birefringence of less than 0.02 and a retardance of less than 100 nm.

An article includes an optical filter that comprises a wavelength selective reflective layer and at least one wavelength selective absorbing layer. The optical filter has visible transmittance between 400 nm-700 nm of less than about 30% and near infrared transmittance at 830 nm-900 nm greater than about 30%.

Optical camouflage filters

An optical assembly includes an integral lens assembly having one or more lenses bonded to each other with spaced apart major first and second lens surfaces. First and second optical films are bonded to respective major first and second lens surfaces. The first and second optical films includes a plurality of polymeric layers. Each of the polymeric layers have an average thickness of less than about 500 nm. For a substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range the plurality of polymeric layers in the first optical film has an average optical transmittance and an average optical reflectance of greater than about 70% for a first polarization state and an orthogonal second polarization state, respectively. The plurality of polymeric layers in the second optical film has an average optical transmittance of greater than about 70% for at least one of the first and second polarization states.

Optical systems

Various embodiments of a respirator that includes a harness, a mask body, and an exhalation valve are disclosed. The exhalation valve can include a valve seat and a flexible flap that is in engagement with the valve seat. The flexible flap can have one or more materials that can cause the flap to flash when moving from a closed position to an open position or vice versa. The flashing valve can make it easier for a user to ascertain whether the valve is operating properly.

Respirator having optically active exhalation valve

A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength Lto a greater wavelength Land including W, where 30 nm≤L−L≤50 nm and Lis greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength Lcorresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.

A film stack includes an oriented first layer including polyvinyl alcohol disposed on an oriented second layer including naphthalene dicarboxylate containing copolyester resin. The oriented second layer has in-plane birefringence Δnxy<0.02.

An optical construction includes a reflective polarizer and an optically diffusive film disposed on the reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer includes an outer layer including a plurality of first particles partially protruding from a first major surface thereof to form a structured major surface. A first optically diffusive layer is conformably disposed on the structured major surface. The optically diffusive film includes a second optically diffusive layer including a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed therein, and a structured layer including a structured major surface. For a substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm, the second optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs in the visible wavelength range and an average specular transmittance Is in the infrared wavelength range, where Is/Vs≥2.5.

Optical construction and display system

A detector system is described that includes a detector that is sensitive to wavelengths in a detection wavelength range. The detector system further includes a light control film that is disposed on the detector and includes a plurality of alternating first and second regions. Each first region has a width W and a height H, where H/W&#x2265;1. Each first region has a substantially low transmission in a first portion of the detection wavelength range and a substantially high transmission in the remaining portion of the detection wavelength range. Each second region has a substantially high transmission in the detection wavelength range.

Angularly and spectrally selective detector and light source systems

A retroreflective system is disclosed that includes a retroreflective sheet for retroreflecting light, and a light control film disposed on the retroreflective sheet. For a first wavelength, light incident on the light control film at each of a first and second angles of incidence is retroreflected. For a second wavelength, light incident on the light control film at the first, but not the second, angle of incidence is retroreflected.

Spectrally selective retroreflective system

A light control film is disclosed that includes a plurality of spaced apart first regions. Each first region has a substantially low transmission in one or two of a first wavelength range from about 300 nm to about 400 nm, a second wavelength range from about 400 nm to about 700 nm, and a third wavelength range from about 700 nm to about 1200 nm, and a substantially high transmission in the remaining wavelength ranges. The light control film has a viewing angle of less than about 70 degrees along a predetermined first direction.

Spectrally selective light control film

Various embodiments of a respirator () that includes a harness (), a mask body (), and an exhalation valve () are disclosed. The exhalation valve () can include a valve seat () and a flexible flap () that is in engagement with the valve seat. The flexible flap can have one or more materials that can cause the flap to flash () when moving from a closed position to an open position or vice versa. The flashing valve can make it easier for a user to ascertain whether the valve is operating properly.

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

David T Yust